Lead SDET – Telecom Performance & Scalability

Spain Posted on February 18, 2026

Job Description

Lead SDET – Telecom Performance & Scalability
Vonage

What You Will Do Design, develop, and maintain scalable automated test frameworks using Python and TypeScript ( Playwright) Build and execute end-to-end, API, integration, and regression test suites Lead performance, load, stress,  scalability testing, and chaos engineering across high-availability telecom platforms Validate real-time communication systems and event-driven architectures

Test and verify cloud-native applications deployed within AWS environments

Ensure systems meet performance, resilience, scalability, and availability standards

Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous delivery

Collaborate with Engineering, DevOps, and Product teams within Agile ceremonies

Identify performance bottlenecks, architectural risks, and quality gaps early

Contribute to the continuous improvement of QA processes and engineering standards

What You Will Bring • Strong experience testing telecommunications or CPaaS platforms • Proven hands-on experience with AWS cloud services (e.g., EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, API Gateway, S3) • Strong automation development skills in Typescript and Python. • Solid experience with performance testing tools (e.g., JMeter, k6, Gatling) • Experience testing distributed systems, microservices, and high-throughput APIs • Strong understanding of QA principles within Agile/Scrum environments • Experience embedding testing into CI/CD pipelines • Strong analytical and problem-solving capability • Ability to work effectively within distributed/global teams • Excellent working knowledge of SIPp (Session Initiation Protocol), including hands-on experience generating high volumes of SIP calls for load, stress, and scalability testing.

Experience working with Ribbon Communications telecom infrastructure, including SBC configuration, SIP routing validation, and performance testing within carrier-grade environments.

Required Demonstrable hands-on automation experience in Python and TypeScript

Proven experience testing cloud-native systems deployed on AWS

Proven experience performing performance and scalability testing

Experience working in Agile engineering environments

Strong understanding of API and integration testing

Solid understanding of system architecture and non-functional testing principles

Experience with observability tooling. Familiarity with tools like Grafana and Kibana.

Familiarity with RESTful APIs.

What Is Required for the application?

Updated CV highlighting relevant telecom, AWS, automation, and performance experience

Summary of automation frameworks and tools previously used

Details of performance testing experience (tools, scale, environments)

About Vonage

We’re making communications more flexible, intelligent, and personal, to help enterprises the world over stay ahead. We provide unified communications, contact centers and programmable communications APIs, built on the world's most flexible cloud communications platform. Vonage was founded in 2001 and became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ericsson in 2022. Vonage is headquartered in Holmdel, New Jersey. We hope you'll join the conversation with us and welcome your feedback. However, we reserve the right to remove comments that are offensive, abusive, spam, or third-party advertisements.

Industry: IT Services and IT Consulting